The Coffee Bean Plant
Powerful Nutrition

The whole coffee fruit or berry is loaded with high concentrations of beneficial antioxidants and other extraordinary nutrients including polyphenols, chlorogenic, ferulic and caffeic acid.

Coffee bean plants grow on the slopes of high-altitude volcanic mountainsides. Nourished by mineral-rich soil and warmed by intense tropical sunlight, coffee plants produce a profusion of wonderful bright red fruit.

The coffee fruit or coffee berry is so exceptionally rich in antioxidants because it grows in high altitude, low-latitude regions where the sun's rays are strongest.

As the plants mature, they develop powerful antioxidants to protect them from damage caused by high doses of the sun's radiation and the natural by-products of photosynthesis.

Remember, antioxidants are like an infusion of strength into your body.

Their role is to protect your cells from free radical damage or oxidative stress -- antioxidants prevention against aging and “dis-ease” within the body.

The coffee bean is the seed of the coffee plant (the pit inside the red or purple fruit).

The fruits, coffee cherries or coffee berries, most commonly contain two stones with their flat sides together.

Coffee beans contain 0.8-2.5% caffeine, which is one of the main reasons the plants are cultivated. Up until recently growers threw away this antioxidant rich fruit and harvested only the bean.

Coffee Berry and Glyconutrition

The whole coffee fruit also contains many healthy poly-, oligo- and five of the eight essential mono-saccharides. Polysaccharides, such as mannans and aribinogalactans make up nearly 50% of the coffee berry.

Conventional roasting destroys these nutrients, so they're not found in traditional coffee.

We all know that carbohydrates provide the 'fuel' that we use to run our bodies. Until recently, it was thought energy creation was the only role that carbohydrates played in our body.

During the last few years, however, emerging science has suggested that eight carbohydrates, Mannose, Galactose, Fucose, Xylose, Glucose, Sialic acid, N-Acetylglucosamine, and N-Acetylgalactosamine, are essential to life because they are the basic building blocks of all biological communication.

Scientists believe that this family of eight mono- saccharides is essential in order for our immune systems to function properly.

Coffee berry releases unusually high levels of mannose, galactose, fucose, xylose, arabinose and glucose during digestion.


From Coffee Bean Plant to Antioxidant Rich Foods

Antioxidant Antiaging Home Page